Never liked that song.
With all the great Christmas songs there are, one needs to be pretty full of himself to try and write a newer better one.
So hideous it belongs right up there with Dominic The Donkey and Christmas Shoes.
Yeah, I always thought it was a sappy song loved by women who couldn’t get enough Kim Walker.
Why does someone have to write this article every year? It’s just silly.
“Yes she knew.”
And it’s ok for someone to go through the thought process which Mary was already aware of.
Quit tearing down songs which actually present the Gospel.
“Have Yourself a Mary Little Christmas”. What...??
“Don’t be surprised when pop stars want to sing about Christmas without actually reading the Bible.”
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Or find ones who use Christmas as a setting for something unrelated to the holiday or faith - but are still quite listenable anyway, instead, e.g.:
“The Pogues - Fairytale of New York”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtFfhlZPLls
Regarding rape victims:
It's not wrong to talk about purity or virginity of Mary. God chose her and God said she would be honored. Rape steals something very precious and irreplaceable from it's victims and society should be absolutely outraged by it. And the rape victims need support and counseling as they grieve what has been stolen from them.
But it's not the end of the world, it's not the end of the victim's life. It's the purity of the heart not the body that is really important.
Mathew 15:10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
I told my daughter that statistics say 25% of women are raped or abused by the time they turn 18. And that I hope and pray it never happens to her. But if it does, you need to understand I will always love you and will not think less of you. And you should get counseling because it can mess you up psychologically so you need to get help to deal with it the right way if it ever happens.
Regarding what Mary knew:
We know what the angel told her, but how much did she actually understand? She knew she would bear the Son of God. Did she realize that meant he was God Incarnate? Did she realize then that His mission was to pay for our sins? Or that he would hang on the cross?
I think the song is fine. I think it presents the wonder of the nativity in a warm and brilliant way.
There is nothing in the Gospels that says Mary knew, at the time of Jesus’s birth, the details of His future public ministry.
There is nothing in the Gospels to indicate that she knew the details of His salvific crucifixion, death, and resurrection.
If every incident was pre-revealed in detail at the time of the Annunciation, why did Mary and Joseph have to search for Jesus when He was twelve, finding Him in the Temple and asking, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously!”
Why did Mary with Jesus’s other relatives turn up when He was ministering to the crowds, asking to see Him, murmuring that He was “beside himself”?
The author really needs to read the Gospels, rather than last year’s “I hate ‘Mary Did You Know?’ “ articles.
Never in a million years would I have come up with this author’s take. I always assumed they were rhetorical questions for us to appreciate the miracles.
I also cringed when I heard the Cuban Seminarians sing A Little Bit of Jesus in the Bread and Wine back when JPII visited Cuba.
Also, can't stand On Eagles' Wings
The arrangement our choir sings is beautiful, but yes. Mary did know.
It’s a pretty melody, but not Scriptural. Yes; Mary knew.
“Mary, Did You Know” is one of my favorite Christmas songs and I think this article is utterly ridiculous.
The lyrics are simply contemplating how much of the magnitude of who Christ is as the second Person of the triune God, did Mary really comprehended at the time.
She certainly understood that she had been chosen to bring Israel’s promised Messiah and Savior into the world, however, His being being the word by which the universe was created and his being King over Israel some day, are two vastly different things.
Remember, Israeli girls married young and even Mary, like the disciples, had to be given light gradually.
“Mary, Did You Know” has more of the gospel and the stunning truth that God Himself came into the world and paid our sin debt, then most of the Christmas carols that we sing every year.
People need to stop overthinking a song about mere speculation, because many of us have wondered the same things, and that isn’t a sin.
Obey the mediots or be mocked. Love the song.
A welcome post... Amazing all the important facts that tend to get lost, forgotten, or cast aside in the fog of the endless war against Christianity...
I guess the author of this stupid screed has no idea of what a Rhetorical Question is.
Of course Mary knew. The message is for the listener.
Frankly I love the song.
The author needs to attack Jimgle Bells.
Hmm. There must be a book missing from every single "new testament" I've ever had access to. I've never read in it about you "you shall have a day of rest on December 25 and have either three masses or a tree."
So much of Luke sounds like the personal perspective of Mary.
As for music...it’s merely part of the pop culture, why overthink it? That said, I prefer the older songs.